Dubai Diabetes and Endocrinology Journal, 2021 Background: Diabetes is a highly prevalent global and local major health problem according to the International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and will double by 2045. A strong relationship between obesity and type 2 diabetes has been found.
Noorah Bawady +5 more
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Views of patients about sickle cell disease management in primary care: a questionnaire-based pilot study. [PDF]
, 2012 OBJECTIVES: To determine how patients with sickle cell disease (SCD) perceive the quality of care that they receive from their primary healthcare providers.
Aljuburi, G +10 more
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Efficiency of “Prescribe Vida Saludable”, a health promotion innovation. Pilot phase
Gaceta Sanitaria, 2017 Objective: “Prescribe Vida Saludable” (PVS) is an organisational innovation designed to optimise the promotion of multiple healthy habits in primary healthcare.
Aitor Sanz-Guinea +7 more
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Front‐line perspectives on ‘joined‐up’ working relationships: a qualitative study of social prescribing in the west of Scotland [PDF]
, 2017 Cross-sector collaboration has been promoted by government policies in the United Kingdom and many western welfare states for decades. Literature on joint working has focused predominantly on the strategic level, neglecting the role of individual ...
Cornish, Flora +2 more
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Self-care in primary care: findings from a longitudinal comparison study. [PDF]
, 2013 To examine the effects of self-care training workshops for primary healthcare workers on frequently attending ...
Bagnall, A +6 more
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Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2018 Background: Vaccination of healthcare providers (HCPs) against seasonal influenza has been consistently recommended worldwide. Despite that, healthcare providers (HCPs) globally and in other Middle Eastern countries continue to have a low rate of ...
Lateefa Mohamed AlMarzooqi +4 more
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The Potential Clinical and Economic Value of Primary Tumour Identification in Metastatic Cancer of Unknown Primary Tumour: A Population-Based Retrospective Matched Cohort Study. [PDF]
, 2017 PurposeSeveral genomic tests have recently been developed to identify the primary tumour in cancer of unknown primary tumour (CUP). However, the value of identifying the primary tumour in clinical practice for CUP patients remains questionable and ...
Brackstone, Muriel +8 more
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“What if There's Something Wrong with Her?”‐How Biomedical Technologies Contribute to Epistemic Injustice in Healthcare [PDF]
, 2020 While there is a steadily growing literature on epistemic injustice in healthcare, there are few discussions of the role that biomedical technologies play in harming patients in their capacity as knowers.
Alexander Michelle +33 more
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Accountability and Primary Healthcare
Healthcare Policy | Politiques de Santé, 2014 This paper examines the accountability structures within primary healthcare (PHC) in Ontario; in particular, who is accountable for what and to whom, and the policy tools being used. Ontario has implemented a series of incremental reforms, using expenditure policy instruments, enforced through contractual agreements to provide a defined set of publicly
Shaheena, Mukhi +2 more
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Access to healthcare for undocumented migrants: Analysis of avoidable hospital admissions in Sicily from 2003 to 2013 [PDF]
, 2017 Access to healthcare services for undocumented migrants is one of the main public health issues currently being debated among European countries. Exclusion from primary healthcare services may lead to serious consequences for migrants' health.
Addario, Sebastiano Pollina +9 more
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